CLD Talks

This week on CLD Talks I speak with Stuart Moir who is a Bicentennial Education Fellow within Moray House School of Education and Sport. We have a great chat about how CLD found him, work he done as a school based practitioner and the challenges within that, his current role, where CLD is and so much more!

Stuart’s contact information - https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/stuart-moir

Twitter - @CLDTalks

This week on CLD Talks I have the pleasure to speak with Dr Sinead Gormally who is a Senior Lecturer in Community Development with the University of Glasgow. We have a great conversation about Sinead’s career from starting off going to youth clubs, Sinead's upbringing, social justice, the work Sinead is doing on Peace Building on a national scale, becoming an academic and so much more!

Twitter @SineadGormally

Twitter @CLDTalks

This week on CLD Talks I had the pleasure to speak with Ruth Kerracher who works with STAF (Scottish Through Care and After Care Forum) and CYCJ (Children and Young People Centre for Justice. Ruth tells us about the amazing work she is involved with, the opportunities young people gain from working with them, social justice, participation and lots more! 

This is a great chat and raises awareness of supporting young people in care and within the justice system.

Links:

https://www.staf.scot/Listing/Category/youth-justice-voices

https://www.staf.scot/event/participation-practitioner-forum-sept-2021

https://www.cycj.org.uk/

Activism film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8c23kpgr7s

Twitter @CLDTalks - @StafScot - @CYCJScotland - @Ruth_Kerracher

This week on CLD Talks we are revisiting some of the answers to our signature question, “What advice would you give to someone looking to start a career in CLD?”

We are currently working on a few different podcasts however with Summer Holidays and schedules I figured it would be nice to revisit some of the amazing messages from our previous guests!

Hope you guys enjoy and thanks for tuning in every week, it really means so much!

Twitter @CLDTalks

On this weeks episode of CLD Talks I am joined by Josh Clarke who is the Co-Founder of Turf Youth Project which is a charity based within Greater Pollock and Cardonald wards in Glasgow. In 2016 Josh and Stacey started Turf Youth Project and since then they have grown the charity from the ground up. Josh talks us through their challenges, successes and getting keys to their new premises and all the learning which came with it. Turf Youth Project will be opening its doors to the public later this month.

Find them on Twitter and Facebook:

@TurfYservice

https://www.facebook.com/turfcommunity

Find us on Twitter @CLDTalks

This week on CLD Talks I had the pleasure to speak with Iain Corbett who is a Local Coordinator for Drumchapel & Castlemilk with Children's Neighbourhood Scotland which is based within Glasgow University. 

We discuss how Iain used Drama to work with young people, why he decided in a career within CLD, set backs, not knowing the answers, funding and much more!

Twitter:

Iain Corbett - @IainCorbett88

Children's Neighbourhood Scotland - @CnScotland

CLD Talks @CLDTalks

Hope you all enjoy!

This week on CLD Talks I am join with Warren Hughes who is the Project Manager for the Scottish Gambling Education Hub within Fast Forward. Warren and his team support young people’s health and wellbeing by promoting gambling education and prevention across Scotland through various ways including training CLD Practitioners. 

We have a great discussion about the origins of the hub, opportunities created from the pandemic and training/ resources available to the work force.

If you, or someone you know, needs support when it comes to gambling, you can call the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133.

For more information:

www.fastforward.org.uk

https://trustmefilm.org.uk/

https://gamblingeducationhub.fastforward.org.uk/

Twitter

@GamblingEduHub

@WarrenHughesFF

@FastForwardorg

@CLDTalks

This week on CLD Talks I have the pleasure to speak with Clare MacGillivray who is the Director of Making Rights Real, European Director for the International Association for Community Development and Chair of the World Community Development Conference Dundee 2019. Clare discusses her career from going to university, going to India to do community development, her passion for supporting people understanding/ utilising their basic Human Rights and the development or her organisation Making Rights Real.

Clare also discusses the World Community Development Conference 2021 in Nairobi Kenya which takes place on the 21st - 23rd of June. The conference has been rescheduled from last year and has been moved online! From more information/ sign up please go to - https://wcdc2021.acdpk.org/ 

Other links discussed

The international association for Community Development - https://www.iacdglobal.org/

The Children's Parliament - https://www.childrensparliament.org.uk/

Twitter: 

@Clare_MacG

@Rights_Real

@Creative_Voices

@IACD_global

@CLDTalks

Thanks again to Vic for covering for me this week!

This week on CLD Talks, Vic has a chat with Jackie Howie who is the CEO of Learning Link Scotland who support Third Sector Organisations across Scotland. Jackie talks us through her journey of becoming a CLD Practitioner, the importance of Adult Learning, the up and coming Adult Learning Strategy and much more!

Find Learning Link Scotland on Twitter @LearningLinkSCO

Check out @CLDTalks on Twitter to join the conversation there.